Qualities - Not for a leader
In my last posting I wrote about the qualities a leader should have. Now, after the SunTV, Dinakaran, DMK, I couldn't resist writing about qualities a leader should not have.
1. Supporting & Justifying violence - A leader can not do this even in his / her mind. The moment you start understanding the reasons behind a violence, your mind would start justifying (rationalizing) it. Human mind is so powerful, it can justify anything.
2. Inferiority complex - A leader can feel inferior of himself only to improve in any specific area. However he / she can not have an inferiority complex.
In the criminal activities that went on in Madurai recently, three innocent lives were lost. When asked to the chief minister about when would police arrest the prime suspect (in this case his own son), he was angry and said it is you who committed the crime and do you have any proof to that aspect.
If a father could feel so much angry to arrest his son, won't he know how much angry the parents of the three innocent persons who lost their lives feel? This is just one example where he justifies violence. He has a history of supporting violence not only if it is done against his opponents or by his own supporters but also towards veerappan, naxalites and we can go on to quote instances.
Coming to the second quality, when a reporter asked him why Raja was recommended for a cabinet minister, he said because he belonged to the Scheduled caste! Did Raja convert to Schedule caste just now? Wasn't he belong to schedule caste since his birth? So why didn't he recommend Raja three years back. Because at that time he had his own family member to take care of and he recommended Dayanidhi! Now there is no family member available (Kanimozhi will be available only after getting elected to Rajya Sabha), so scheduled caste came to picture. This is not just one occasion but Whenever somebody berates him and he got no valid answer he would resort to this. Thus for whatsoever reason, even though he is so successfull in life (from nowhere to the CM and a sea of wealth) there is an underlying anxiety for him that he doesn't belong to the higher caste! This reminds of Gandhi in his days in South Africa he mentioned "Nobody can berate you unless you berate yourself".
Unless Karunanidhi overcomes these two he is a leader unfit for the job.
1. Supporting & Justifying violence - A leader can not do this even in his / her mind. The moment you start understanding the reasons behind a violence, your mind would start justifying (rationalizing) it. Human mind is so powerful, it can justify anything.
2. Inferiority complex - A leader can feel inferior of himself only to improve in any specific area. However he / she can not have an inferiority complex.
In the criminal activities that went on in Madurai recently, three innocent lives were lost. When asked to the chief minister about when would police arrest the prime suspect (in this case his own son), he was angry and said it is you who committed the crime and do you have any proof to that aspect.
If a father could feel so much angry to arrest his son, won't he know how much angry the parents of the three innocent persons who lost their lives feel? This is just one example where he justifies violence. He has a history of supporting violence not only if it is done against his opponents or by his own supporters but also towards veerappan, naxalites and we can go on to quote instances.
Coming to the second quality, when a reporter asked him why Raja was recommended for a cabinet minister, he said because he belonged to the Scheduled caste! Did Raja convert to Schedule caste just now? Wasn't he belong to schedule caste since his birth? So why didn't he recommend Raja three years back. Because at that time he had his own family member to take care of and he recommended Dayanidhi! Now there is no family member available (Kanimozhi will be available only after getting elected to Rajya Sabha), so scheduled caste came to picture. This is not just one occasion but Whenever somebody berates him and he got no valid answer he would resort to this. Thus for whatsoever reason, even though he is so successfull in life (from nowhere to the CM and a sea of wealth) there is an underlying anxiety for him that he doesn't belong to the higher caste! This reminds of Gandhi in his days in South Africa he mentioned "Nobody can berate you unless you berate yourself".
Unless Karunanidhi overcomes these two he is a leader unfit for the job.
posted by aaraar at 9:10 AM
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